ê
, ; MALABTA GERMS
Cannot survive three months in
the rich ozone at Asfthmd. Pure
domestic water helps.
ASHLAND CLIMATE
W iihout the use of medicine < _
nine cases out of ten of asthma.
This is a p ‘-»ven fact.
Tidings Has Been Ashland's Beading M ewpaper For Nearly Fifty Years
(United PNM Wire Service)
VOU XI,IX
SENIOR CLASS
PLAY SCORES
DECIDED HIT
=£-
Successor to the Semi-Weekly Tidings, Volarne 49
ASHLAND, OREGON, SATruDAY- APRIL 24, 1926
HIGHWAY WILL
Auto Theft Probe
BE COMPLETED
BY SEPTEMBER
PLEADING OF WIFE
Cast of Characters
Following Is the complete cast
and synopsis:
Tom Browne, the chief engin­
eer, Jack Stewart, who drew the
plans ..................... Wilbur Tucker
Colonel bane, a heavy stock­
holder ......................... Earl Nutter
Lannon, a contractor,
.........
............................. Virgil Gillette
Bolton, Browne’s valet .................
............. i............ Roland Parks
Dalntry, foreman at the dam :.....
.............. ?........... Albert Marske
Eva Lou, the Colonel’s daughter
........................ ....... Velma Clapp
Torrence. Lannon’s daughter ....
.......... .......... Frances Chisholm
Mrs. Lane-Turner, Eva Lou’s Aunt
Jude ............ Elizabeth Stearns
ATTORNEY GENERAL
FAYORSOIL MERGER
Amalgamation is N ot Any
Violation of Anti Trust
Laws, He Sai ■vs
WASHINGTON, April 24.—
(U P)— Formation of the Tide­
water Associated Oil company by
merger of the Associated Oil
company and of the Tidewater
company is not in violation of
anti-trus^ laws, Attorney General
Sargent announced today.
Department of justice agents
investigated the merger and Sar­
gent said their reports did not
warrant instituting action under
Place— Arizone.
the anti-trust laws against the
Time—The present.
company. The government, he
Act. 1.— Browne’s apartments said, could reopen the ease at
in Colonel Lane's residence, nine any time.
o’clock in the evening. Going it
blind.
Act II— Engineer’s general of­
fices at the gain, six weeks later.
Keeping it up.
Act III—The same, the follow­
ing mornfhg. Putting it over.
Business Mgr......Warren Doremus
SEATTLE, Wash., April 24.—
Stage Mgr........... Hubert Gilmore
(UP)—
D. F. Burns, aged 59, Is
Property Mgr....... Charles Tilton
being quizzed by the police who
suspect him of being the vandal
whose depredations cost two
lives and thousands of dollars
of damage. Burns was arrest­
ed during the night as he was
releasing the brakes of a coal
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April car in the Northern Pacific
24, — Lennart C. Sands, oiler yards, it was charged.
The car would have, gone
for the Lamm Lumber company
at Modoc Point, came to his death down a grade to great damage
through electrocution, it was de­ if the deed had not been dis­
termined at an autopsy over the covered. Railroad officials have
body of the popular young mill been seeking for five months a
worker. The body at first show­ man who set a Northern Pacific
ed no signs of having been burn­ switch engine in motion, caus­
ed by electric ¿current and the ing it to crash into a Great
cause of his death was a mystery. Northern train at the King
He died a few minutes after go­ street station here, killing two
ing to work
- ——s--------------
Caught Trying to
Unswitch R. R. Car
Electrocution Is
Held Death Cause
Air Service To
Auto Suicide Is
Start On May 1
Latest in London
SEATTLE,
April
24.— An­
nouncing that air mail service be­
tween Seattle and Los Angeles
would be Instituted about June
1, Vern C. Gorst, president of
the Pacific air mall transport,
was here today to perfect mat­
ters pertaining to the air mail
schedule. He arrived here from
the south yesterday via air­
plane.
Gorst declared the Paeoo-
Elko air mall route might again
be <Q operation by May 1.
STOKB-ON-TRENT, England.
April 24,— John P. Fleet, 23, an
automobile enthusiast, depressed
following an attack of Influenza,
locked himself in his father’s ga­
rage, started the motor of a road­
ster, attached a rubber gas tube
to the exhaust, inserted it In Ms
mouth and committed suicide.
Langlois— Star cheese factory
opens, to handle 80,000 pounds
milk a day.
EAR1H SLIDE
REPORTO) ÂT
CRATER LAKE
Amundsen^ Par* <
At Spitzbet
For Pole Flight
SCHOOL BOARD
TO OPEN BIDS
FOR BUILDING
8
KINGS BAY. Spitzberg­
» en, April 21. — (IP) —'
Plans for the chamber of com­ and participate in the night meet­
» Captain llaold Amundsen
merce prograni for the ensuing ing in the city councU chambers
8 nud Lincoln Ellsworth
year will be. discussed, and re­ in order that a complete outline
:: have arrived here, the
ports oB officers and committees of the year’s work can be map­ Boat Houses Badly Damaged 8 starting point of the flight
Contract for New Junior
for the past year will be heard at ped out.
High Expected to be
By Tons of Earth and
8 they will attempt to cross
"I am more than pleased with
the open meeting of the' chamber
Awarded Tonight
Rock, is Report
8 the north pole in the dir­
of commerce directors in the city the cooperation which has been
8 igible Norge.
hall at 8 o’clock Tuesday even­ shown by the individual members NEW PATH IS NEEDED 8
WORK STARTS AT ONCE
Crowds welcomed Cap­
ing. This wilt be the first pub­ thus far, and I am sure that with
8 tain Amundsen and Ells­
Excavating Now Being Done; Pa*
lic meeting -of the chamber in 'the permanent committees organ­ John Maben Makes P erilous Way 8 worth, who came from
plls Not to be Moved This
From
Rim
to
latke;
Bouts
ized
and
under
way.
this
will
be
several months.
8 Tropisoe, Norway, to make
Year -
W recked
a most profitable year for the
8 final preparations for the
O. F. Carson, newly elected I chamber," said Mr. Carson.
flight
which
may
carry
8
president of the organization, Will "There are a number of import­
A gigantic slide has swept
Rids for the alteration of the
announce his committee appoint­ ant matters to come before the away hundreds of tons of aarth 8 them across the pole to
present
Hawthorne school into a
ments, on which he has been organization, and I am sure that and rock down the precipitous 8 Point Barrow, Alaska.
junior high school will be open­
working for the past two weeks. all of them can be speedily and descent from the rim of Crater
ed at a special meeting of the
j school board tonight, and if tho
There will be no forum lunch­ successfully solved through the Lake to the surface of the lake,
I bids are acceptable, a contract
and
cooperation partially destroying the boat
eon on Tuesday noon, but all coordination
houses and causing other dam­
; will be awarded In order that
members will be urged to attend which Is everywhere apparent."
age.
! the work may be started as
This was the long distance
speedily as possible.
message received here lats night
Several contractors are sub­
from John Maben, who is now at Hawaiian Born People of mitting bids for this work and
Eastern Countries Get
Crater Lake lodge putting it in
it is expected that competition
Special Permits
readiness for the summer tour­
will be keen. Extensive atlera-
—<
ist travel.
WASHINGTON^ D. C.. April tions are planned under the
The body of Emil Mahony,
. Maben yesterday felt his way 24. — (U.P.) — Restrictions drawings of the school board ar­
who died at Cottage Grove will
down the 1000 feet from the rim against the entrance into the chitect, and when completed the
be brought to Ashland tomor
to the lake and came upon the United States of Hawaiian-born new junior high school will be
row and funeral services will
slide which caused so much dam­ citizens of Oriental origin were one of the best buildings of its
be held Monday morning at 10 Friends Pay Last Tribute at age, and which will necessitate
ordered removed yesterday after­ kind in this part of the state.
Funeral Services for
o’clock from the Dodge Chapel'
some changes in the winding noon. Under a special immigra­
Members of the school board
Mrs. L. E. Norris
with Rev. Pemberton officiating.,
path which leads from the rim ' tion certificate devised by Gov­ today said the pupils now at­
Interment will be in the Moun­
to the lake.
ernor Farrington of Hawaii and tending the Hawthorne grade
Funeral services were held at
tain View cemetery. «
Several of the boats
were' W. W. Husband,, assistant sec­ school will not be moved to tho
Eugene yesterday for Mrs. L. E.
partly damaged, Maben reported,!
Norris, for many years a prom­
retary of labor, natives of Japan new Lincoln school this year.
but
most
of
these
can
be
repair-!
inent and respected resident of
and other farm eastern countries There are but four more weeks
ed.
The
snow
is
fast
melting
at
“l
ar®
acc°vded th° *ame p '«viie^ i
and 11WM not thought
Ashland. Scores of Ashland *and
advisable
to
make the change
Jackson county friends weie the lodge, there being about five of travel as Qn„
any other foreign­
feet
at
the
present
time.
during
the
closing
weeks of the
ers.
grieved to learn of her passing at
school year.
Eugene earlier this week.
Excavation work for the new
Mrs. Norris lived here from
junior high school is now in pro­
Yayoi Maru Has Narrow 1889 to 1901 and was promin-.
gress. This is being done by the
Escape in Lower Colum­ ently identified with the Method-1
board
in order, to speed up the
bia River Friday
ist church as well as civic and
actual
construction work when
. charitable organizations, includ­
ASTORIA, Ore., April 2 4 a
the
contracts
are let. It the bid
pleted section of this important
ing the Women's Christian Temp­
The Japanese steamer Yayoi
is awarded at the meeting tonight
highway in Klamath county."
F
o
o
d
Situation
Serious;
erance Union.
Another Not Exneoted to it is expected the contractor will
The Bend and The Dalles busi­ Maru narrowly missed runiting
Many Tales of Cruelties
She was 84 years old at the
on
the
rocks
in
the
ColnmK
Live as Result of High­ assemble bis material and men
ness men are gdeste of Klamath
Are Related
time of her death and was the
way Crash
and be in readiness to start the
Falls today at an informal cele­ River near Stella, Wash., yes­ p other-of A. C. Dixon, general
terday afternoon
The vessel
alteration work the day school
■
P
eking
,
April
24.—
(UP)—
bration gathering.
' manager of the Booth-Kelly
WHITE SALMON, Wash., April j8 closed for this year
was outbound for the Orient
Fifty
thousand
refugees
poured
lumber company.
24. — (LP) — Neva Vaughn, IB,
‘
■
from Longview, Wash., and
Mrs. Norris’ last visit here Into Peking today with stories of Is dead and Ione Anderson, 16,
while skirting the shore the
three years ago, at which time alleged outrages committed by is suffering from a fractured skull
steering engkyes failed1.
Both
she met many of her Ashland Manchurian troops. The food,
anchors dropped and barely suc­ friends and Renewed acquaint­ situation in the capital Is acuta as a result of an automobile ac­
cident. They may die.
ceeded in checking'the ship be­
ances of years ago. It was on and these additional mouths to
The crash occurred when a car
fore she struck.
She swuug
her last visit here that sho en­ feed is .making the situation ser­ driven by Scott Teal, 24, of Gil­
clear in a few moments and re­
joyed a motor trip to Crater ious. A majority of the shops mer, struck a bridge rail and fell
sumed her trip.
are dosed because of the Man­
Lake.
about 30 feet to the rocks be­ Traveling Scholarship to
Heavy Damage Done to
churian commander’s orders to
Europe Won by Ashland
low.
Property in Twister Late
accept military money which
High Graduate
A third girl and Teal, the drliv-
Last Night
might be worth something today
er were not seriously injured.
and nothing tomorrow.
George Verne Blue, a graduate
DURANT. Okla., April 24.—
of the Ashland high school, the
(UP)— Cutting a swath about
University of Oregon and uni­
200 yards wide, and ten miles
WASHINGTON, D. C., April
versity of California, and who Is
long, a cyclone swept through
now doing post-graduate work at
three villages north of here last 24.— (UP)— The prohibitionists
State Health Officer Broad
Berkley for the degree of doctor
night. At least three persons ended their case for strict en­
cants Warning- Through -
Pf philosophy, has juat been
were killed and a score injured. forcement in the middle of a
out
State
______
BEND. April 24. — (U.P.)—
awarded an European traveling
The stdrm destroyed 30 dwell­ sentenbe before the senate com­
Oregon
is
due
for
an
epidemic
|
8,detracked
fron>
mittee
today,
their
24
hours
of
ings and damaged telephone lines
Another Covered Dish Func­ scholarship.
testimony endlng'wlth a declara­ of measles thia year, according to a hobo cat arrived in Bend this
This award was made on the
and crops.
tion Will be Held Next
tion by Dry Csar Andrews that
week
on
a
freight
car
and
i<
basis
of brilliant achievement ot
Dr. Frederick D. Stricker, secre­
Thursday
he does not favor loosening the tary of the state board of health, now camped at tho local rail­
scholarship and is one ot the
Andrews’ statement was ad- who Issued a bulletin today ask­ road station, evidentaly waiting
The Ashland Women's Civic highest honors which can be won
liquor laws to allow light beer,
for
some
more
inhabited
out­
club
la planning another of its by any student at the University
ing the people to guard against
duce by the drr«z to rebutt the
bound
freight
to
head
north,
lo­
popular
covered dish suppers for of California.
the disease.
declaration drawn from him last
cal
railroad
men
report.
Whllo
He will spend about eight
next
Thursday
evening at the
Every thir<j yenr measles al­
week that he believed light
the transcontinental mouser Is club house. Each member Is months in Spain. France and
most
disappear,
only
to
reappenr
DALLAS, Texas, April 24.— beers for home
consumption
watching long strings of lumber privileged to bring her husband England in hiatorical research.
(UP)— Wind and flood In Texas would aid enforcement. He said with violence in the two suc­ and stock cars move out of Bend and one other person, either a He stopped off in Ashland yes­
and Oklahoma today claimed at he had been sincere in Uls state­ ceeding years, according to Dr. It ts cleaning up several nests member of her family or a friend terday to Visit hla parents, Mr.
least 14 lives and caused in­ ment, but that he had not advo­ Stricker. In 1925 the state had of mice in a warehouse near the for whom the uaUal charge will and Mrs. D. P. Blue, while en­
only 190 cases, and no deaths,
juries to a score of persons, be­ cated any law change.
route to Eugene where he Is to
be made.
eo this year a big increase is ex­ tracks.
sides resulting in thousands of
take
part of the work of Prof,
Each
member
attending
is
pected.
dollars property damage.
asked to contribute some prepar­ Barnes for the remainder of the
Texas lost 11 lives by drown­
ed dish for the supper. Card spring team at Oregon.
ing and lightning during the
tables will be ready for those who
week. Torential rains flooded
care to play.
the lowlands. Three were kill­
NEW YORK, April 24.—After
ed near Durant, Oklahoma last robbing the safe of a Beck Haz­
.... PORTLAND, Ore., April 24.
night.
— (UP)—A
monster
parade
ard shoe store, a nonchalant
OLYMPIA, April 24. — Sacra­ with a climax of celebration on
yonng robber sat down and re­
CHICAGO, April 24,— (UP) —
BROOKLYN, N. Y., April 24.
quested a frightened clerk to fit mental wine, when used for new Burnside bridge May 28
Electrical and wind storms, ac­ him with a pair of shoes. “Wrap church purposes but not by m«m- will constitute Portland’s fete
— One dollar was left by Iaadore
companied by heavy rains, struck them up,” he commanded, when
Jarmelowaky "to my estranged
ot * congregation, does not over completion of the span, It
several at the middle
wife," nt tfie wm which was made
d, "find phi In A pair 6f[rwirtr» * pgmttt, according M was decided at a meeting ot the
states today.
Wire Communi­ ■ox— silk ones, If you please.''
a ruling by Assistant Attorney bridge
celebration
executive
ph bile Friday. No reason for the
LOS ANGELES. April 34.— unusual bequest was given.
cations were extremely Impaired
General E. W. Anderson.
A committee In the chamber ot
between cities In Iowa, Wiscon­ THIEVES HAUL AWAY
Paul
F. Mahoney, contractor,
1925 law provides for permits commerce Thursday afternoon.
sin and Northern Illinois.
wag
found
guilty of manslaught-
where
the
wine
la
to
be
used
County Commissioner Taft pre­
SIX CALVES IN TRICK
by congregations.
sided and announced commlttee, er by a Jury h#r# *“ connectldn
with the fatal grandstand crash
assignments.
HARRISBURG, Ore., April 34.
at Pasadena New Year's day.
Daring thieves Monday night took
which took 10 livsa.
six calves, each about 6 months
old, from a pen near the dairy,
PROVIDENCE, R. I.. April 34.
barn of George A. McCart, five
— Bound for no place in particu­
lar. Frank Weeden, who recently
miles southeast of town. Indica­
LONDON, April 24.— (UP)— tions are that the calves were
NEW YORK. April 24.— Bruce
made his 14th escape from the
The Duchess of York and the In­ hauled in a truck to the unoccu­ Barton, Fannie Hurat. Louis
atate hospital for the Insane, was
MEMPHI8, April 24. — Cele
fant princess, who was born to pied W. H. Dale farm nearby, Wiley and Benator Royal 8. Cope- brallng her 97th birthday nnni
recaptured by railroad detective«
her yesterday, are "both In ex­ were slaughtered and the carcases land are included in a commit-'vorsary
______
aa he was riding-the rods oa a
at a family reunion of five
cellent condition,” attending phy­ hauled away, presumably to some tae to Judge upon substitution« generations, "Grandma” Harriet KANSAS CITY, Mo.”, April 24,
New Haven passenger ire’s.
sicians announced in a bulletin market. All of the calves were submitted foi< the word "waiter” Perkins smoked her pipe In hap- Emil Porter,, a ’blind” beggar den had 9*0 In hla pocket
today. "Their progress in every registered fun blood Hoi stela which has been termed "menial” piness, and took part in the danc- was arreatod when he picked np he said he had hurled ne
way is normal and satisfactory,” heifer». McCart is in Eastern Ore­ and "common" by restaurant ing, doing the Cherleeton with a a dollar bill dropped by a detec- hoaplta) while previously A.
the physicians announced.
gon on bnsinese.
PORTLAND, Ore., April
34. —- (IP) — No wrong
was intended, by Miss
« Twyle Mooney, pretty 17-
» year-old Portland girl,
“ Putting It Over’ ’ is Receiv­ » who fled from home and
The Dalles and Bend Auto
ed With Enthusiasm
Caravan Arrives At
» school March 1 with her
By Large Crowd
* Klamath Falls
» young fiance, whose ac­
8 tivities led him to jail.
WORK ON FINAL GAP
STUDENTS TALENTED 8
This is the finding of
It the .Multnomah county
Threc-Act Comedy Declared by 8 grand jury, which has ex­
Running Time W ill Be Lowered
■Many to be Ib-at In Several
With Completion of New c
« onerated the girl after
Grading
Yearn
» listening to extensive evi­
» dence in the case. George
Ono of the best senior class a Hofer, 20* another of the
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April
plays ever presented by Ashland a trio that participated in . a 24.— The Dalle8-Callfornla high­
high school students wps the ver­ a the flight, also was exon- a way from The Dailse to Alturac,
dict of scores of citizens who last a erated, but Ross Crlvyea,
Cal., will be completed by Sep­
night witnessed the annual sen­ a 18, the fiance, has been
tember, and in celebration of the
ior class play, "Putting It Over" a indicted for burglary and
early completion of this import­
as staged by nine competent young a larceny of an automobile.
ant Central Oregon highway pro­
people of the graduating class.
ject, an auto caravan of The
The story deals with the con­
Dalles and Bend business men
struction of a large dam in the
arrived’ here today on a tour of
west and the perfidy of Tom
inspection ’of 'tie Highway.
Browne, the chief engineer, as
The last gap of the cross-state
portrayed in a clever manner by
highw/ay, a 32-mile section In
William Tucker, Young Tucker
Northern Klamath, is now being
also played a double role, that of
surface under two contracts.
Jack Stewart, the young engineer Klamath Falls Man Not to North from Klamath Falls the
Face Trial for Alleged
who drew the stolen plans.
highway is completed to a point
Death Threat
Dramatic Comedy
near Beav.er Marsh.
Running
'.‘Putting It Over” is a three-act ‘
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aprlb time between Klamath Falls and
dramatic comedy, and in addition
24. — Pleas of his wife Pearl Bend, a distance of 140 miles, ts
to the thread of humor which un­
resulted in dismissal of a charge now five hours. These facts, giv­
winds during the play, it also has
of assault with intent to ' kill en today by state highway of­
^ • I t s intensely dramatic moments
ficials give promise of heavv
which were handled in splendid against Bernie Duckett who was tourist travel from the north
charged
with
attempting
to
style W the youthful dramatic
drown his wife In Ewauna lake this summer.
students.
"There Is one bad section to be
The hiigh school audltoriium Sunday night.
negotiated
between Bend and
The district, attorney’s office
was crowded almost to capacity,
Klamath
Falls,"
said C. C. Beelev
and all who attended voted it hn acceded to the wife’s request, resident state highway engineer.
and
the
couple,
according
to
re­
entertainment of more than usual
“That is a flve-ftiile detour near
merit. The girl’s glee club render­ ports, are reconciled.
Crescent. The road from this
ed three enjoyable selections be­
city to Beaver Marsh is com­
tween acts, as did the high school
pleted. From there into Des­
orchestra.
chutes county is the only uncom­
tt
»
«
WORK FOR CONING YEAR TO
BE OUTLINED BY DIRECTORS
OF CHAMBER TUESDAY NIGHT
NO. 199
OPEN ¡ORIENTALS
Emil Mahony Dead
At Cottage Grove
FORME! u n i
BUSES H ME
JAP VESSEL NEARLY
S
<
ONE GIBL KILLED
6EORGE I. BLUE IS
1HREEKIUEDBY
E
Andrews Says Not
For Any Law Change
EXPECTED THIS YEAR Ilobo Railway Cat
Visiting At Bend
WILL STAGE SUPPER
Many Drown in
Storms In Texas
This Robber Had
Monster Parade
Plenty of Nerve Legal Uáe Of Wine
To Open Bridge
By Church Defined
Contractor Who
Built Big Stand
Is Found Guilty
Little Princess
Is Doing Nicely
Estranged Wife
Gets One Dollar
Escaped Insane
Patient Caught
Waiters Seeking
Does Charleston
Change In Name
At Ripe Old Age (IBlind„ Mfln
Crisp Dollar Bill